It was a very enjoyable trip and one I've always looked back on with fondness (see http://birdingneversleeps.blogspot.com/1995/08/ and/or http://jfcbirdingtrips.blogspot.co.uk/2012_06_01_archive.html.)
Although we did very well, at least against standards at the time, we did not manage to find Scaly Ground Roller and it has been something of an open sore ever since. Nick and I decided to revisit Madagascar in October to do our best to rectify this and hopefully see a few other species we'd missed. We put together a trip giving us 15 days birding in the Southwest and Eastern Highlands and again had a great time, seeing all our realistic targets (we were too early for Sooty Falcon). Several blogs charting the trip will be published in due course when photographs have been sorted. For the time being a set of ground rollers, Madagascar's stand out family, follows:
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| Scaly Ground Roller at Manatadia (our bird of the trip) |
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| Long-tailed Ground Roller at Mosa's Baobab Forest |
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| Pitta-like Ground Roller at Ranomafana |
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| Rufous-headed Ground Roler at Voihparara |
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| Shoret-legged Ground Roller at Iaroka |
